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Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

A swarm of beggars sit here permanently: old tattered hags with long veils, ragged children, blind old bearded beggars, who raise up a chorus of prayers for money, holding out their wooden bowls, or clattering with their sticks on the stones, or pulling your coat-skirts and moaning and whining; yonder sit a group of coal-black Coptish pilgrims, with robes and turbans of dark blue, fumbling their perpetual beads.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Having closed it on him, Fledgeby returned to Lammle, standing with his back to the bedroom fire, with one hand under his coat-skirts, and all his whiskers in the other.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Only his hands, with which he kept his coat-skirts down round

Master and Man 2003

"I felt it," he admitted, producing three apples from the pockets of his trailing coat-skirts and tossing two of them to his companions as they walked.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

The lords came straggling up, their coat-skirts flapping in the sharp wind, wearing the best clothes they had left; crowding outside, awaiting leave to enter.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

He actually clapped his hands together behind his back, spread his legs apart in the attitude of the Colossus of Rhodes, while his coat-skirts almost touched the ground, giving him the look of a kangaroo resting his paws under his tail.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The fresh number from your coat-skirts, and the suspicious importation from America, are set together like the two Dromios before the duke.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

At last Federico dashed him to the ground, and disappeared from the room, leaving behind him one of his coat-skirts, torn off in the contest.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various